Why Enterprises Need A Middleware Approach To Blockchain

Following last week’s cyber security breach at Equifax, this article highlights why some consider blockchain not suitable to handle functionality typically provided by enterprise middleware such as identity management.

Steve Wilson, an analyst at Constellation Research, who has studied the blockchain extensively has serious reservations about it as an identity management system:

“Identity is not going to move to the blockchain in any big way (not as we know it). Blockchains were designed to solve problems quite different from identity management (IDM). We need to remember that the classic blockchain is an elaborate system that allows total strangers to nevertheless exchange real value reliably. It works without identity and without trust. So it’s simply illogical to think such a mechanism could have anything to offer identity,”